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WO2000064288A1
WO2000064288A1 PCT/US2000/010449 US0010449W WO0064288A1 WO 2000064288 A1 WO2000064288 A1 WO 2000064288A1 US 0010449 W US0010449 W US 0010449W WO 0064288 A1 WO0064288 A1 WO 0064288A1
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Shem D. Oesch
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
    • A23N15/00—Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs
    • A23N15/04—Devices for topping fruit or vegetables
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/04—Processes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/202—With product handling means
    • Y10T83/2074—Including means to divert one portion of product from another
    • Y10T83/2081—Gravity type
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/202—With product handling means
    • Y10T83/2092—Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product
    • Y10T83/2209—Guide
    • Y10T83/2216—Inclined conduit, chute or plane
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/654—With work-constraining means on work conveyor [i.e., "work-carrier"]
    • Y10T83/6542—Plural means to constrain plural work pieces
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6572—With additional mans to engage work and orient it relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6574—By work-stopping abutment
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6584—Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
    • Y10T83/6587—Including plural, laterally spaced tools
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
    • Y10T83/6584—Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
    • Y10T83/6633—By work moving flexible chain or conveyor

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  • This invention relates generally to food processing and, more particularly, to apparatus and methods for conveying food items such as carrots to a cutter.
  • Apparatus for topping and tailing vegetables such as carrots employ a conveyor for moving the vegetables to one or more cutters.
  • the conveyor typically includes pockets or slots for receiving the vegetables that are oriented in a specific manner with respect to the cutter.
  • Some apparatus employ cutters that cut each piece of vegetable into two or more pieces of shorter lengths to produce, for example, baby carrots.
  • the conveyor typically operates at a high speed. The ability to orient quickly the carrots into the pockets of the conveyor becomes a limiting factor on the feed rate of carrots to the cutter. When some of the carrots are not oriented properly, they will pass through the apparatus without being topped or tailed or cut into the proper sizes.
  • the carrots may be oriented longitudinally instead of transversely toward the cutter and pass through the cutter without being cut or cut in a longitudinally direction into thinner rather than shorter pieces.
  • Some apparatus employ elaborate and complex mechanisms for orienting the carrots, which typically slow down the cutting process and are prone to malfunctioning.
  • the present invention provides apparatus and methods for conveying food items such as carrots to a cutter for cutting which reduce the production of uncut or improperly cut food items and increase the output of properly cut food items. It does so by simple tilting of the conveyor so that food items which are not properly received into pockets of the conveyor tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity away from the cutter and into a recycle area from which they are returned to a feed line to be fed to the conveyor again.
  • the food items are fed to the conveyor, preferably assisted by gravity, at an angle having a component opposite to the direction of the conveyor selected to increase the likelihood that they will be properly aligned with and received into the pockets moving in the conveyor direction. In this way, the invention avoids or at least minimizes the production of uncut or improperly cut food items at the output of the cutter without employing complex mechanisms or decreasing the speed of the conveyor.
  • a food processing apparatus for conveying food items to a cutter for cutting comprises a conveyor having a plurality of pockets for receiving food items and configured to move the food items in a conveyor direction to a cutter.
  • a stationary feed chute is disposed adjacent a side of the conveyor and is disposed at a chute angle measured from a horizontal plane for fransferring the food items downward to the conveyor by gravity.
  • the conveyor is disposed at a conveyor angle measured from the horizontal plane.
  • the conveyor angle is counter-clockwise relative to the conveyor direction.
  • the conveyor is substantially unobstructed along another side opposite from the stationary feed chute so that food items which are not received into the pockets of the conveyor tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity.
  • the conveyor angle is about 15°-70°, and more desirably about 40°-45°.
  • the pockets in the conveyor are oriented generally in a transverse direction which is substantially perpendicular to the conveyor direction.
  • the conveyor is further disposed such as the conveyor direction is at a transverse angle measured from the horizontal plane, and the transverse angle is counter-clockwise relative to the transverse direction.
  • the transverse angle is about 15°- 45°, and more desirably about 30°.
  • the feed chute in some embodiments includes a guide member for guiding the food items to the conveyor at a guide angle measured from the transverse direction.
  • the guide angle is counter-clockwise relative to a downward direction which points generally downward and is substantially perpendicular to a plane on which both the conveyor direction and the transverse direction lie. In specific embodiments, the guide angle is about 4°-10°.
  • an apparatus for conveying food items to a cutter comprises a conveyor having a plurality of slots for receiving food items and configured to move the food items upward in a conveyor direction to a cutter.
  • the plurality of pockets are oriented generally in a transverse direction which is substantially perpendicular to the conveyor direction.
  • the food items are received into and aligned in the pockets generally in the transverse direction.
  • a stationary feed chute is disposed adjacent a side of the conveyor for transferring the food items to the conveyor.
  • the conveyor is disposed at a transverse angle measured from a horizontal plane.
  • the transverse angle is counter-clockwise relative to the transverse direction so that food items which are not received into the pockets of the conveyor tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity.
  • the transverse angle is about 15°-45°, and more desirably about 30°.
  • an apparatus for conveying food items to a cutter comprises a conveyor having a plurality of pockets for receiving food items and configured to move the food items in a conveyor direction to a cutter.
  • the plurality of pockets are oriented in a pocket direction which is nonparallel to the conveyor direction. The food items are received into and aligned in the pockets
  • the apparatus further comprises means for transferring the food items to the conveyor.
  • the conveyor is disposed at an angle measured from a horizontal plane so that food items which are not received into the pockets tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity away from the cutter.
  • the angle of the conveyor is selected so that food items which are not received into the pockets of the conveyor tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity generally in a direction which is opposite from the conveyor direction or in a direction which is substantially parallel to the pocket direction.
  • a method for conveying food items on a conveyor having a plurality of pockets to a cutter for cutting comprises transferring food items in a feed direction to the pockets of the conveyor.
  • the conveyor is moved in a conveyor direction to the cutter which is nonparallel to the feed direction.
  • the conveyor is tilted at an angle measured from a horizontal plane so that food items which are not received into the pockets tend to fall off from the conveyor by gravity away from the cutter.
  • the method further comprises guiding the food items into the plurality of pockets of the conveyor at a guide angle measured from a pocket direction along which the pockets are oriented.
  • the guide angle is counter-clockwise relative to a downward direction which points generally downward and is substantially perpendicular to a plane on which both the conveyor direction and the pocket direction lie.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the food processing apparatus of Fig. 1 illustrating the movement of food items in the apparatus;
  • Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the food processing apparatus of Fig. 2 along I-I illustrating the feed chute, the transition chute, and the conveyor.
  • a conveyor 10 receives food
  • a transition chute 16 is provided in the entry region where the carrots pass from the feed chute 12 to the conveyor 10 to guide the carrots 17 into a plurality of pockets 18 of the conveyor 10, which are illustrated in Fig. 2.
  • the conveyor 10 and the transition chute 16 are made transparent in Fig. 1 to show the other details of the apparatus. Further details of the conveyor 10 and the transition chute 16 are shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.
  • the conveyor 10 moves in a conveyor direction 20 toward the cutter 14, and the pockets 18 are typically oriented in a pocket direction or transverse direction 21 which is generally perpendicular to the conveyor direction.
  • the carrots 17 are transferred from the feed chute 12 to the conveyor 10 generally in the pocket direction 21.
  • the conveyor 10 in this embodiment is an endless conveyor driven to rotate by a conveyor motor 22 on a frame 24 toward the cutter 14 in an upper path and returning to the region of the feed chute 12 in a lower path.
  • the conveyor 10 typically has a planar configuration between the feed chute 12 and the cutter 14.
  • the conveyor 10 is tilted relative to a horizontal plane 26.
  • the entire food processing apparatus is tilted relative to the horizontal plane 26 by a compound angle which is formed by two angles.
  • the first angle is a conveyor angle _ ⁇ which is measured from the horizontal plane 26 and is counter-clockwise relative to the conveyor direction 20. That is, an observer looking in the conveyor direction 20 of the conveyor 10 will see a rotation of the conveyor 10 and the pocket direction 21 from the horizontal plane 26 in the counter-clockwise direction until the pocket direction 21 makes an angle equal to the conveyor angle ⁇ i with the horizontal plane 26.
  • the second angle is a pocket angle or transverse angle ⁇ 2 which is also measured from the horizontal plane 26 and is counter-clockwise relative to the pocket direction 21.
  • the order of the two rotations may be reversed. That is, the conveyor 10 can be first rotated counter-clockwise relative to the pocket direction 21 until the conveyor direction 20 makes an angle equal to the pocket angle ⁇ with the horizontal plane 26. The conveyor 10 is then rotated counter-clockwise relative to the conveyor direction 20 until the pocket direction 21 makes an angle equal to the conveyor angle ⁇ i with the horizontal plane 26. Because the second rotation of the conveyor 10 takes place relative to the conveyor direction 20, the second rotation does not change the pocket angle ⁇ 2 between the conveyor direction 20 and the horizontal plane 26. Generally, when an object is rotated by multiple angles relative to a fixed coordinate system (e.g., a cartesian coordinate system), the order of the rotations will affect the final orientation of the object.
  • a fixed coordinate system e.g., a cartesian coordinate system
  • the conveyor angle ⁇ j and the pocket angle ⁇ 2 have been defined not with respect to a fixed cartesian coordinate system but with respect to the conveyor direction 20 and the pocket direction 21, such that the orientation of the conveyor 10 is the same regardless of the order of the rotations.
  • the feed chute 12 is stationary with a fixed direction of feed for the carrots 17 and is rotated by the same angles ⁇ i and ⁇ 2 from the horizontal plane 26.
  • the feed chute 12 in this embodiment is coupled with the conveyor frame 24 and is generally planar and parallel to the conveyor 10.
  • the feed chute 12 is disposed at or near the top of the pocket dividers 28 which define the rows of pockets 18 on the conveyor 10.
  • the height of the pocket dividers 28 is typically equal to or slightly larger than the maximum width of the carrots 17. In the embodiment shown, the height of the pocket dividers 28 is about 1-3 inches, and is typically about 2 inches.
  • the transition chute 16 is typically coupled with the feed chute 12 and/or the conveyor frame 24, and includes a convex surface 30 which guides the carrots 17 into the pockets 18 of the conveyor 10 to increase the percentage of carrots 17 received into the pockets 18.
  • the transition chute 16 is flush with or spaced slightly above the pocket dividers 28 by a clearance. In a specific embodiment, the clearance between the transition chute 16 and the pocket dividers 28 is about 0-1/2 inch, and more desirably about 1/8 inch.
  • the transition chute 16 may extend partially or completely across the width of the conveyor 10.
  • the feed chute 12 desirably includes a guide member 32, as best seen in Fig. 1, which is generally perpendicular to the bottom portion of the feed chute 12.
  • the - guide member 32 is desirably disposed at a guide angle ⁇ measured from the pocket direction 21.
  • the guide angle ⁇ 3 is counter-clockwise relative to a downward direction 34 which points generally downward and is substantially perpendicular to a plane on which both the conveyor direction 20 and the pocket direction 21 lie.
  • the conveyor direction 20 and pocket direction 21 define the plane of the conveyor 10.
  • the guide member 32 directs the carrots 17 to pass from the feed chute 12 to the conveyor 10 at the guide angle ⁇ 3 having a first component in the pocket direction 21 and a second component which is opposite to the conveyor direction 20.
  • the cutter 14 may include one or more cutting blades arranged in any desired manner for topping, tailing, or cutting the carrots 17 into baby sizes.
  • the cutter 14 includes a plurality of blades 38 spaced across the width of the conveyor 10 for cutting the carrots 17 in baby sizes.
  • the pocket dividers 28 are spaced across the width of the conveyor 10 by at least as many spaces therebetween to accommodate the blades 38. These spaces between the pocket dividers 28 in a row are larger than the thickness of the blades 38 to avoid contact with the blades 38.
  • the conveyor 10 in this embodiment has a width that allows multiple carrots 17 to be positioned in a single row of pockets 18.
  • the width of the conveyor 10 is typically about 12-24 inches, and more desirably about 18 inches.
  • the conveyor 10 includes continuous rows of the pocket dividers 28 to define continuous rows of pockets 18 therebetween. For simplicity, only some of the rows of pockets 18 and pocket dividers 28 are shown in Fig. 2. The remaining rows are symbolically indicated by the round continuation symbol ( • • ⁇ )• Adjacent rows of pocket dividers 28 are typically spaced by a distance of about 1-4 inches, more desirably about 2 inches, to define the pockets 18 therebetween.
  • the conveyor 10 includes a - stationary backstop 48 on the side opposite from feed chute 12 to keep the carrots 17 that are received into the pockets 18 from sliding off.
  • the backstop 48 typically runs the entire length of the conveyor 10, and has a height that is generally the same as the height of the pocket dividers 28 so that the conveyor 10 is substantially unobstructed above the backstop 48 and pocket dividers 28.
  • carrots 17 are fed from a feed conveyor 40 to the feed chute 12 and slide toward the conveyor 10 as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. Because of the tilting of the feed chute 12 by the conveyor angle ⁇ i and the pocket angle ⁇ , the carrots 17 are generally aligned longitudinally against the guide member 32 to slide by gravity toward the conveyor 10.
  • the guide angle ⁇ 3 of the guide member 32 provides better alignment of the carrots 17 with the pockets 18 moving in the conveyor direction 20. Because the conveyor 10 is moving in a direction (conveyor direction 20) that is different from the direction of feed of the carrots 17 (generally along pocket direction 21 and skewed by guide angle ⁇ 3 ), the change in the momentum of the carrots 17 as they come in contact with the conveyor 10 may tend to bounce the carrots 17.
  • the transition chute 16 reduces the bouncing so that a larger percentage of the carrots 17 fall within the pockets 18 on the conveyor 10. Those carrots 17 which do not fall into the pockets 18 will be carried by the feed momentum and gravity across the width of the conveyor 10 into a recycle area 44, from which they are returned to the feed conveyor 40 and refed to the conveyor 10 via a recycle conveyor (not shown). Such carrots 17 tend to slide above the top of the pocket dividers 28 across the width of the conveyor 10 into the recycle area 44. To allow those carrots 17 to reach the recycle area 44, the conveyor 10 is substantially unobstructed above the top of the pocket dividers 28 along the side opposite from the feed chute 12.
  • the tilting of the conveyor 10 by the conveyor angle ⁇ i and the pocket angle ⁇ 2 facilitates the collection and recycling of the carrots 17 that are not properly received into the pockets 18 of the conveyor 10, and decreases the amount of misfed carrots 17 from reaching the cutter 14. Those carrots 17 fall off from the conveyor 10 by gravity away from the cutter 14. This ensures that most of the carrots 17 that reach the cutter 14 are properly oriented and reduces the number of uncut or improperly cut carrots at the output of the cutter 14.
  • the selection of the conveyor angle ⁇ 1 ⁇ the pocket angle ⁇ 2 , and the guide angle ⁇ depends on various factors, including the shape and size of the conveyor 10 and pockets 18, the shape and size of the carrots 17 or other food items being processed, and the speed of the conveyor 10.
  • the angles can be optimized for a particular configuration and operating conditions of the apparatus.
  • the conveyor angle _ ⁇ is between about 15°-70°
  • the pocket angle ⁇ 2 is between about 15° ⁇ 45°
  • the guide angle ⁇ 3 is between about 4°-10°.
  • the conveyor speed is about 120- 150 feet per minute
  • the conveyor angle ⁇ i is between about 40°-45°
  • the pocket angle ⁇ 2 is about 30°
  • the guide angle ⁇ is between about 6°-8°.
  • the apparatus may be tilted by only one of the two angles, ⁇ 1 ⁇ ⁇ 2 .
  • the tilting by the conveyor angle ⁇ i enhances the feed momentum of the carrots 17 that do not fall within the pockets 18 to carry them across the width of the conveyor 10 to the recycle area 14.
  • the tilting by the pocket angle ⁇ 2 utilizes gravity to cause those carrots to fall off from the conveyor 10 away from the cutter 14.
  • the tilting of the apparatus by one of the two angles, ⁇ 1 ⁇ ⁇ may be sufficient to prevent misfed carrots from reaching the cutter 14 and allow them to be collected in the recycle area 44.
  • the feed chute 12 may be nonparallel to the conveyor 10.
  • the feed chute 12 may be rotated by a chute angle from the horizontal plane 26 which is different from the compound angle of rotation of ⁇ i and ⁇ 2 for the conveyor 10.
  • the feed chute 12 and the conveyor 10 may include portions that are nonplanar.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un appareil de transformation alimentaire, qui achemine des articles alimentaires, tels que des carottes (17) et analogues, vers un organe de coupe (14). L'appareil comprend un transporteur (10) comportant plusieurs compartiments de réception des articles alimentaires. Le transporteur se déplace dans le sens de la marche vers l'organe de coupe pour étêter, équeuter ou découper les articles alimentaires. Une goulotte d'alimentation (12) fixe est disposée adjacente à un côté du transporteur pour transférer les articles alimentaires au transporteur. L'appareil est disposé à un angle composé mesuré à partir du plan horizontal, qui permet le transfert par gravité des articles alimentaires de la goulotte d'alimentation au transporteur. Les articles alimentaires qui ne sont pas reçus dans les compartiments du transporteur sont entraînés par leur vitesse d'alimentation de manière à tomber par gravité du transporteur, dans une direction qui les éloigne de l'organe de coupe; ils sont ensuite recueillis et réacheminés vers la goulotte d'alimentation. La quantité d'articles alimentaires faisant l'objet d'un défaut d'alimentation et qui pourrait arriver à l'organe de coupe est ainsi limitée, de même que la quantité d'articles alimentaires non découpés ou mal découpés sortant de l'organe de coupe. Le guidage des articles alimentaires pendant leur transfert de la goulotte d'alimentation au transporteur, selon un angle comportant un élément disposé dans le sens contraire à celui de la marche du transporteur, permet d'aligner les articles alimentaires posés sur le transporteur en mouvement avec les compartiments, ce qui augmente la précision de réception des articles alimentaires dans ces compartiments.
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